LYKE OH EMM GEEE NO WEYYY.

That title is annoying isn't it? Yes. Yes it is.

Yesterday was cello day. Every Tuesday is cello day. Actually, no, everyday is cello day now. I got the cello book yesterday. My teacher doesn't think it will take me long to get through the first book. This is because I can already read sheet music, know the finger positions, and have a natural sense of pitch. I'm really excited about that, because it is a very good skill for a strings musician.

Does that make me sound conceited?
I only joke about being conceited... I'm just really excited about this. It seems I fell in love with the perfect musical instrument for me. One of these days I'll have to pick up violin. ^_^

I need to see about getting my class schedule changed so that I can take piano again next semester. It's my favorite class. Obviously. The only way that class would be better is if it were an entire class period devoted to cello. Since I don't see that happening anytime soon around here, that makes it the best class ever. We have a final exam in piano next week though. We have to play in front of the class something from the book. I guess I'll be playing the Hungarian Rhapsody #2. Then I'll have to sight read something from the first book. Which shouldn't be too difficult, since I've already learned everything in the first book.

Yes.

Well, here is yet another post about music. haha. Enjoy.

This past Sunday, I was helping out with my church's Thanksgiving dinner. It was held at a community center of the town the church is in. I had never been to this community center before because I don't live in that town. There was about twenty of us decorating, moving tables, and all that other good stuff that is involved in a church dinner. Then, at one point, I looked to my right and... I saw a piano! I was still helping out, so I couldn't go and play it. About an hour later, before we left to come back, I was dying of piano deprevation. I was given five minutes to play Amazing Grace. I messed up... multiple times. That is fine, because I played in front of nearly twenty people, which is really good in my opinion.


Also,
Yesterday, I started cello lessons! That is the most exciting thing ever for me. I've always wondered since I was a child what it would be like to take private music lessons, and now I get to know. I've loved the cello ever since I found out what it really was. As bad as it sounds, I found out about the cello nearly a year ago. I might tell that story later. I did, at the lesson, make a fool of myself by not knowing my left from my right. I know my izquierda from my derecha, but not my left from my right. That's almost worse than not knowing what a cello is.

=D

Oh, it's been so long. I'm going to try not to complain this time... I really should have written my last post with a less annoyed tone, but I don't care too much.

Anyway, I guess I could write about music again, since that's really all there is to talk about. I didn't practice as much as I wish I had over the four day weekend. I did, however, manage to distract myself from the last three songs in my piano book. I should have had enough time to count out all three of them during those few days, but I didn't. I happened upon the sheet music for Lulluby by John Ness Beck that I have from chior last year. I only learned about 13 measures, but I feel I'm capable of playing a few more than that. Really, it has only two difficult measures and then it repeats about five easy measures.

I guess no one really cares about that though. I feel like I'm complaining again, or at least rambling on about nothing.

'Kay then! New topic: Pasta Skeletons! I had to make one in the class of -----

---guess!---

---Spanish. I did learn of a very interesting type of pasta. It's called "Radiatore"
Now, I have a "Radiatore" somewhere in my purse.


And somewhere across the hall, there is a little noodle man with a "Radiatore" head.

'Kay. So...

I would write about piano again, but that would center this whole blog on music, but it's supposed to be centered on school. I would guess that it really doesn't matter, but I think I'll write about Spanish this time. We are reading this small, easy book in Spanish in class. I'm really more off on my own with it, and I hope that's not a problem. The rest of the class is translating everything word for word, while I'm just understanding most of the Spanish. I'm reading it no different than I would read in English. I'm doing this because I want to improve my Spanish comprehension, rather than my translating skills. I don't mean to sound conceited or anything, but my translating skills are fine, for where I am. Besides that, babies don't go around translating English word for word into Baby-Speak, so why think of Spanish like that? There's no time to think in a conversation anyway.

The opportunity to learn another language is something to be grateful for. It is always an opportunity that should be taken. My biggest pet peeve, however is when people take a foreign language class for the wrong reasons. These classes should be taken because one truley wants to learn the language and not because it looks good on a college application. It is my opinion that the classes won't look good if you can't even speak the language.

Spanish is not the first foreign language I have studied and will not be the last, that is, if you consider studying the basics of Japanese grammar to be studying a foreign language.
haha

I could probably go on for days about this, but I really should stop now. I might continue at a later date.

A Random Doodle

I'll post a random doodle, since I haven't posted in over a week...
Yes, it belongs to me.
My avatar picture, however, was not drawn by me.

Woah! A Blog Post!

This is actually rather fun, almost as fun as piano. Then again, I'd rather be playing piano right now, so I guess I'll talk about that in my first post. I've been playing piano for about a year now. Most of that time was spent teaching myself, which means I almost never started at the beginning. I finally got into piano class at school, where I started from the beginning. It's kind of boring because I really don't like any of the songs in the first book, but I am improving a lot in my sheet music skills. I learned the first six measures of one of my favorite songs last night while procrastinating with my Algebra 2 homework (which I still haven't done). It's a song I could not play just two months ago. Still, after the first six measures, it gets kind of hard and I don't have the patience to learn the rest of the six pages over night. By the way, that's funny. HAHA.